chroming or and polishing

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polishing is easy and quick if you know how... the hard way is practiced by many.

theres a few tricks. 1 of them is patience.. the ohter's you have to look at the guide as somone wrote one up ages ago.

i use a totally diff method to polish than most hobbyists.. ill throw a project page up of my new engine tomorrow

 

wont be finnished.. but will be a good idea of what a days work can do

 

ok, put basicly... use a wire brush in a drill to remove loose metal/oxidising/roiad dirt.. then sand with 120 grit till its completly flat an theres NO black spots... (this is verry important) then 240 (at this stage i use a lubricant/fat) again till its flat and uniform, then buff with a rough mop and a soft compound then with hard.. its ALL in the first sanding so dont skip or try to rush it. you can get a mirror finnish but still be full of scratches and dimplels or you can polish till its an absoloutly liquid metal looking peice of mirror ali. its all about elbow grease especially hand sanding all the little places. the mop/buffer just polishes it up to give the shine, it should reflect by the time your done wiht the 240 if done right.

 

this gives a good shine, for full on mirror go up through the grades.. up to 400 then 600 then a qucik hand blast wiht 1200.. remember lubricant is important wiht ali so lots of water/fat from 240 up or your wasting time.

 

tallo (renderd pig fat) or lard... talo (probably wrong spelling) is great stuff, once you use it you will never go back (cant belive the secrets i let off round here i tell ya) can get it anywhere that sels polishing compounds.. autosol works but is literally there to mantain a shine, i never really use it now as ive got mops galore.. everything up to gold grade

 

you can use lard... just rub a smear onto the paper.. it will make ablack gunky mess on the paper and material.. dont remove it and remember even tho the paper is flat, coverd in grey fatty shit and starting to look shiny its stil working, use paper till its literally falling to peices.

the fat stops you digging deeper and deeper and just makes a compound from the material youve removed mixing with the fat. your basicly using a compoiund and paper but the paper sets the grade of the compound produced by the fat and debris from sanding. dry paper removes too much and just takes fuckin ages

try it with lard.. its 30p. do a section with and without and see what works. i already know you will be supprised what a bit of pig fat can do LOL